Mafia 4 would have been set in '70s Las Vegas

While the biggest headline out of Kotaku’s feature on the state of Mafia III developers Hangar 13 was news that a new BioShock is in development, but there’s plenty more of interest in the full report. Among other things, the planned setting for Mafia IV.

In 2017, development at Hangar 13 reportedly split into two groups, one focused on DLC for the previous game, and one building the concepts for the studio’s next project. The first idea was naturally Mafia IV, and early ideas set the game in 1970s Las Vegas, with the “glitz and glamor of mob-controlled Sin City.”